When did Germans stop supporting Adolf Hitler?
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There is no strong evidence that, given a free choice, a majority of Germans ever supported the Nazis.
The Weimar Republic was a multiparty proportional-representation Parliamentary Democracy. Under such systems, its quite common for no one party to hold a majority.
In the last legitimately Democratic election in that nation, the Nazi party secured only 37% of the vote. That was more than any other party in the nation, and enough that it probably wouldn't be feasible to form a government without them in the ruling coalition. However, its a fact that nearly two thirds of Germans in that election wanted someone else.
Looking over the results, it looks like there was one other right wing party that won seats in that election, with about another 5% of the vote. None of the rest of the top parties were anywhere near as right-wing as the Nazis. This means two things: First, that it looks like they scooped up nearly all far-right voters that election, and Second, that the vast majority of the country did not want a government on that end of the political spectrum.
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As Pieter said in comment, May the 8th 1945 should be chosen for the event you're speaking of.
Why? Well, because if during the dictatorship from 1933 to 1939, people could still enter resistance, the Germans were still mostly supporting or passive about nazism and Hitler.
Then came the war: from this point, the war triggered two factors:
- By that time, most of the population was patriotic, even if it was not nazi. This was notably true for some German, aristocratic generals that thought nazism was low-people politics. They thought they were above that, but overall they were patriotic so they stayed loyal
- The war triggered more control of the society, and it was seen even worse to be critical against th Nazis
Note that resistance was still possible: for example, Operation Walkyrie.
So the point is that during the war, there was no tangible sign that Hitler was not supported anymore. And it is mostly because no such signs could express, except for an uprising that never came. So on May, 8th 1945 there was a brutal change. And it seems that the Germans, considering the Shoah and the disaster for Germany at the end of the war (death, destruction, foreign occupation), changed their minds quickly.
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